Isabel Paterson Quotes

Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption of a fixed number of jobs in that system. Conversely, in arguing for collectivism, he always assumes that there will be as many jobs as there are workers. The government will make the jobs.

As the several items can be exchanged, they must be equal; but in what terms? Not in pounds, yards, or hours; they are equal in value. Then what is wanted is a unit of value to reckon by.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.